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FUJITSU LIMITED Nov. 2016
Brief Summary of Intellectual Property Activities
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Business and Intellectual Property Strategy
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Utilizing the most advanced ICT to rapidly respond to business changes
Collaboration and co-creation that transcend business and industry boundaries
The Era of Digital Transformation
Customer Efforts toward Digital Transformation
Promoting ecosystem building through co-creation with customers
Carrying out over 300 PoCs※/operational trial
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※ PoC : Proof of Concept (testing new technology and ideas)
Customer analysis/
marketing
About 60 trials
Transport information/ disaster prevention
About 40 trials
Top 8 areas of PoC/operational trial
Product traceability
About 30 trials Factory visualization
About 30 trials
Safety (seniors/children)
About 30 trials
Facility monitoring/ maintenance
About 20 trials
Retail customer movement analysis
About 20 trials
Advanced agriculture/ husbandry
About 30 trials
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Fujitsu’s Next-Generation Cloud-Based Digital Business Platform A platform that can achieve customers' digital transformations
Provides the most advanced ICT, such as the cloud, mobile, big data, IoT, and AI
Existing information systems (SoR)
Work efficiencies
Cost reductions
Digital transformation of business (SoE)
Transformation of existing business processes
Creation of new products and services
Ecosystem of multiple companies
Digital Business Platform “MetaArc”
IoT IoT Big Data Big Data
Cloud(K5) Cloud(K5)
AI AI Mobile Mobile
Integration of SoR
and SoE
AI : Artificial Intelligence SoE : Systems of Engagement (systems relating to people or things) SoR : Systems of Record (systems that handle business processes and records)
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Intellectual Property Strategy
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Establishment of intellectual property rights for ideas generated through business or R&D, etc.
Creation and development of new intellectual property strategies with a broader vision for companywide utilization in order to contribute further to business
(1)Standing
as a technology company
(1)Standing
as a technology company
(2) Providing value appropriate
to specific business
(2) Providing value appropriate
to specific business
Ensuring competitiveness in core areas
Collaboration
Patent enforcement
Patent enforcement
Cross license Cross license
Open source Open source
Relinquishing patents
Relinquishing patents
Standardization Standardization
Securing intellectual property
Technology alliance
Technology alliance
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Standing As a Technology Company
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Ranking in Number of Granted Patents (2015)
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All applicants were counted on the Patent Grants Issuance date Source: In-house investigation based on data published by Japan Patents Office
All applicants were counted on the Patent Grants Issuance date Source: Data provided by IFI CLAIMS Patent Services
4,122
3,728
3,344
2,626
2,570
2,348 2,211
2,064
1,881
1,790
1,735
1,579
1,310
1,309
1,193
1,191
1,122
1,111
906
842
0 2,000 4,000 6,000 8,000
TOYOTA MOTOR
Canon
Mitsubish Electric
Toshiba
Panasonic
Fujitsu
Seiko Epson
Ricoh Company
FUJIFILM
Honda Motor
DENSO
NEC
Dai Nippon Printing
Hitachi
Sharp
KYOCERA
Sony
JFE Steel
Fuji Xerox
NISSAN MOTOR
■Japan
7,355
5,072
4,134
2,900
2,835
2,627
2,455
2,242
2,048
1,956
1,938
1,838
1,774
1,757
1,627
1,620
1,581
1,474
1,467 1,407
0 2,000 4,000 6,000 8,000
IBM
Samsung Electronics
Canon
Qualcomm
Toshiba
Sony
LG Electronics
Intel
Microsoft
Apple
Samsung Display
Taiwan Semiconductor…
General Electric
Ricoh Company
Seiko Epson
TOYOTA MOTOR
Panasonic
Fujitsu
Ericsson
■U.S.
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Awards Related to Technology and Patent (1)
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Medal with Purple Ribbon* (Shiju Hosho) in the 2016 Spring Conferment
Medal with Purple Ribbon* (Shiju Hosho) in the 2016 Spring Conferment
Low-cost & high-quality transmission
Broadcaster
Internet
Areas likely to draw attention of the human eye are encoded in high quality and transmitted
Akira Nakagawa, Fujitsu Laboratories
Through these technologies, H.264 video transmission equipment was adopted at broadcast stations around the world. It contributes both to the development of HD video industry and to the growth of HD video on a global scale.(Representative patent No. 4454320)
"Development of Encoding and Transmission Technologies for Digital Video"
These technologies greatly reduce the data volume of High-Definition (HD) video and enable HD video transmission through the public network.
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Awards Related to Technology and Patent (2)
Technology
Awarding Institution
Award Title Title Winner
Cabinet Office, the Government of Japan
Medal with Purple Ribbon (Shiju Hosho) in the 2015 Spring Conferment
Development of ferroelectric random access memory
Takashi Eshita (Fujitsu Semiconductor)
METI, MLIT, MHLW, and MEXT
The Sixth Monodzukuri Nippon Grand Award, the METI Minister’s Prize
Manufacturing system for notebook computers
Masayuki Satou, Tatsumi Fukuma, Motoyuki Yamamoto, Yuma Watano (Shimane Fujitsu)
Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation (JIII)
National Commendation for Invention; Invention Award
Directional sound receiving method
Naoshi Matsuo (Fujitsu Laboratories)
Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation (JIII)
The Kanto Local Commendation for Invention Chairman's Award of JIII in Kanagawa Prefecture (Patent No.4821723)
Low delay video transmission equipment
Hidenobu Miyoshi, Akira Nakagawa, Kimihiko Kazui (Fujitsu Laboratories) Hisanari Kimura (Fujitsu Kyushu Network Technologies)
Patent
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Providing Value to Business -intellectual property activity examples-
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<1> IoT Business
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Dynamic Resource Controller(DRC) of IoT Platform
Proposals for IP strategies that fit the business model Proposals for IP strategies that fit the business model
Automated optimum distribution and deployment for application processing following infrastructure changes such as a change in the number of devices or volume of data (applicable to large scale systems). Patent applications actively filed for core areas that form Fujitsu’s strengths.
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<2> Next Generation Manufacturing
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Patent acquisition from prototype development Patent acquisition from prototype development
Visualization of production line status
The intellectual property department was involved from the prototype development phase and evaluated for patent filing and protection prior to the disclosure of every new function. The “patent applied” marks on proposal materials showed our technological capabilities. Patent applications have been filed in Japan and overseas through such early and organized activities.
FUJITSU JOURNAL, Apr. 20, 2015) http://journal.jp.fujitsu.com/en/2015/04/20/01/
Using big data in factories and other production facilities Visualization solutions that allow engineers onsite to identify points for improvement
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<3> Applications from Datacenter Technology
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Analysis and evaluation from the perspective of IP Analysis and evaluation from the perspective of IP
Power plants/chemical plants
Datacenter
Analysis materials created by the intellectual property department were submitted to roll out fiber optic temperature measurement technology. Business conditions and patent holdings of competitors were analyzed to identify potential risks and issues for rolling out the technology, and patent applications were filed to protect and promote the technology for the purpose of obtaining new businesses.
Applications for fiber optic temperature measurement technology
Technology that uses optical fiber as a sensor to accurately measure indoor temperature distribution
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<4> Turning image analysis technology into a new business
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Encouraging innovation Encouraging innovation
Fujitsu employs its specialties in image analysis technology and investigates a business model with our customer. We filed many patents in Japan and overseas to create patent portfolio(s) that support and protect this service.
Game search service for pro baseball video
© Pacific League Marketing All Rights Reserved Source of photo: Pacific League Marketing Corporation
Technology that enables instant search for desired scenes using a player’s name or batting results such as home runs or strikeouts.
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<5> Intellectual property matching
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Community contribution utilizing intellectual property Community contribution utilizing intellectual property
Fujitsu contributes to the creation of new businesses for local companies by utilizing Fujitsu intellectual properties released for non-exclusive use.
Signing ceremony Printed Nanbu Senbei (Nanbu rice crackers)
Antibacterial Knife
Code embedding technology for printed images
MAC Knife, Inc. ALCO_EX, LTD. Patient watching sensor
technology
KAIODO CO.,LTD.
Photocatalytic Antibacterial Titanium apatite technology
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